Category Associate

Category Associate

JLG began in 1969, when our founder, John L. Grove set out to resolve growing safety concerns in the construction industry. Since then we have been committed to understanding the challenges and delivering innovative solutions to the access market. We partner with customers to provide quality equipment, training opportunities and trusted support within the access industry. We are a global company, and our productsincluding mobile elevating work platforms, telehandlers, utility vehicles and accessoriescan be found all over the world.

The Category Associate role is an entry level support position for the supply chain category management and new product development functions. This role supports the organization by gathering and manipulating spend and commodity data, in support of sourcing strategies and category management. The Category Associate conducts research and begins to understand how categories are internally organized and relate to the business.

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Data gathering and manipulation.
• Knowledge of data analytics tools; data analytics in a specific commodity / category.
• Critical thinking skills forming to connect the category data to the business.
• Develop knowledge of supplier through mentoring.
• Develop supplier relationships management and engagement methodology.
• Develop an understanding for supply market trends.
• Connect with engineer / technical drawings and beginning stages of understand technical grammar and learning the language of the business / category / commodity, reading of technical drawings.

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Pay Range : $56,600.00 - $88,400.00 The above pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target pay for the position across all U.S. locations. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, education and skills, as well as the equity of pay among team members in similar positions. Beyond offering a competitive total rewards package, we prioritize a people-first culture and offer various opportunities to support team member growth and success.